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A CONCISE DESCRIPTION OF THE MARVELOUS VI SIO^'S 
EXPERIENCED BY THE AUTHOR DITRING 
[ ; MANY YEARS OF SOLITARY 
PIONEER LIFE. 



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, Pattison's Book; 

Can the Future Be Foretold? 



THE VISIONS, EXl-EKIENCES AND PROPHECIES OP WILLIAM M. PATTISON, 
OP SNOHOMISH. WASHINGTON. 



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PATTISON'S BOOK. 



INTRODUCTION, 



Mr. William M. Pattison has resided 
in Snohomish connty, Washington, for 
abont eleven years, I made his acquain- 
tance soon after his arrival. For^the 
past eight years his life and business has 
been familiar to me. He is an unedu- 
cated man, being just able to read and 
write ; but having only a very small 
amount of book knowledge. His gift, 
for such it seems to be — training and ed- 
ucation having done almost nothing for 
him, — does not seem to depend on intel- 
lect, education or moral development. 
It is the ^Svonder working faculty" that 
gives power to the savage medicineman, 
Indian conjurer, the spiritualist medium, 
the seer and fortune teller, in every age 
and among the various races ; and which 
everywhere, to the ignorant and unedu- 
cated, seems to be a special revelation 
from on high, imparting divine Avisdom 
to the sons of men. 

All we can say is that Mr. Pattison, in 
in eminent degree, possesses this power, 
or influence. He can readily describe 
his feelings and the methods used by 



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him when using his remarkable power ; 
but further than this he is no more able 
than anyone else to tell how he does it. 
The good spiritualist brother can give 
what seems to him and his fellow spirit- 
ualists a full and complete explan- 
ation. To others their explanation might 
seem wholly inadequate, or even untrue; 
while there are ''some pious souls'' who 
^¥Ould consider that only the ''evil one" 
could enable a person to do such things. 
Mr. Pattison does not attempt to de- 
cide between all these different opinions. 
He simply knows that for over forty 
years, in countless instances, he has fore- 
told the future, giving all the minute 
circumstances surrounding a given event, 
describing scenery, persons and opinions 
of persons concerning a given event. 
Thousands upon thousands of such pre- 
dictions, to my personal knowledge, have 
come true, even to their minutest detail. 
In many cases this is where the thing de- 
scribed was years ahead, unlikely to 
occur and wholly unthought of. In 
many instances those who afterwards 
did these things were not in the country- 
when the prediction was made, and were 
unknown to the people living here at the 



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time. Since then such strangers have 

come here, done the work previously set 
for them to do, in the time, place and 
manner previously foretold^ and at a 
time when he also foretold that others 
would be doing ''other things'' of an en- 
tirely different nature, which would be 
in a given state when still other events 
entirel}' disconnected with these other 
particulars would take place. 

It is not everything that Mr. Pattison 
tells, that conies true. He frequently miss- 
es in dates, less frequently in places, but 
rarely in scenery or surroundings. He 
is of a sanguine temperament and finds 
it more difficult to ''see things" for per- 
sons of a light complexion, or those pos- 
sessing a temperament similar to his own 
than he does "in looking" for those of 
dark hair, or dark complexion, or entire- 
ly different ideas, opinions and tempera- 
ment. 

What he "sees" he describes with lit- 
eral accuracy, as it w^ould appear to an 
uneducated person, having his ideas and 
opinions. Thus, if he sees a book in 
his visions he can describe its size, shape, 
binding, illustrations, the size and ap- 
pearance of the type, but seldom can 



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read from it, or describe its contents. He 
is not unfrequently at fault as to the 
meaning of his visions. He 'Usees'' cer- 
tain things as one would in a dream. It 
seems to be a reality to him, but what is 
its meaning or application, or Avhat is 
the proper interpretation, he can only 
judge from his experience in such mat- 
ters. Not unfrequently those who have 
frequently listened to his recital can, b}^ 
^'putting things together" as it were, 
make a more correct application of the 
things seen than he is able to do. 

Mr. Pattison does not go into a trance 
or loose consciousness, but is able to keep 
up a conversation on any other matters, 
and knows everything going on around 
him, while describing the past, present 
or future of others ,in many cases strang- 
ers, or scenes or persons far removed 
from him. Still all outside talk, or oth- 
er interference, business or other troub- 
les distracts his attention and makes it 
more difficult for him to ''see" anything. 

When looking for anything this way 
his whole mind seems to be concentrated 
on that one thing. When a slight clue 
is obtained, or the thing sought is per- 
ceived, he acts like a man in a forest 



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trying to follow a dim trail. His whole 

mind is intently watching for the slight- 
est evidences. These he sees plainly 
and states them. If noted down by an 
observer they freqently constitute a most 
valuable means of explaining the whole 
vision, but where the matter inquired 
into is lengthy Mr. Pattison's memory of 
these minor details is apt to be less vivid 
than that of most of his listeners. Fre- 
quently the only w^ay he can recall them 
is to go clear back to the beginning and 
retrace the whole thing over again, when 
he will reproduce each word and phrase 
with literal accuracy. 

One w^ould expect that a person with 
such a faculty as he undoubtedly pos- 
sesses would forsee and avoid all the 
''ills of life," yet, strange as itr/ay seem- 
while he may have warnings of impend, 
ing danger, the same as other people, 
he can seldom foresee anything of bene- 
fit to himself. His intuitions do not 
seem to help him, in the slightest degree, 
to avoid trouble or danger. In fact dur- 
ing the past ten years he has been fa- 
mous in this community for the extent 
and variety of his troubles and misfor- 
tunes. He has had no end of difficulties 



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with his neighbors, and also in business 
and family affairs. He is a stirring busi- 
ness man, who, but for such troubles, 
which many other men would have fore- 
seen and avoided, would have made large 
sums of money. He is as apt to have 
these troubles when he is right as other- 
wise. 

While these difficulties may lessen 
his popularity and prove his gift to be of 
little use in his personal affairs; yet it is 
true that he has forewarned many others 
of difficulties and dangers, which they 
have thus been the better able to meet 
or avoid. Months and years afterward 
men frequently come and thank him for 
warnings thus given or assistance ren- 
dered. 

SOME EXPERIENCES. 
It was fully two years after my first 
acquaintance with Mr. Pattison before 
his peculiar gifts became known to me. 
I had heard him ridiculed as being ec- 
centric and peculiar in his ways. Being 
employed to attend to some legal busi- 
ness for him in 1883, I vv^as particularly 
impressed by his keeness and shrewd- 
ness. While he seemed very ignorant of 
books, his criticisms of men and events 



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were in every \vay very tliorough and 

searching. 

One da}^ in Febnar}^, 1883, he came 
into the Eye printing office, in Snoho- 
mish, to tell me that he had acted on le- 
gal advice previouslj^ given him, and 
that the result was satisfactorj^ etc.. I 
was running a job printing press, trying 
to get ont a magazine. /Vfter thanking 
me for my assistance in his affairs, we 
fell into a general conversation, and I 
questioned him as to his past life, pres- 
ent objects and his intentions as to 
the fntnre. He incidentally refererred 
to his power of ''foreseeing the fntnre." 
This amused me so I jokingh' asked him 
as to the success of the enterprise I was 
then intently interested in, and wished 
to know how it would terminate. Con- 
sidering him to be ignorant of such 
things, his answer did not surprise me 
when he said: '^You will get out this 
issue all right, but something will take 
place so you will find it impossible to 
publish any more numbers for man}^ 
years. Railroads will come here first, 
Snohomish will grow rapidlj^, the town 
will be spread awaj^ out, and when you 
go into the publishing business again 



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you will print an illustrated daily news- 
paper.''. 

I thought this a good lot of informa- 
tion to come all in a lump. Then it all 
seemed to be wholly improbable, and I 
put it aside as the blind guess of an un- 
educated man. He gave some further 
details and left. Everything has thus 
far taken place as predicted, except I 
have not returned to thepublishing bus- 
iness. Should I do so the plan of pub- 
lishing an illustrated dail}^ newspaper 
here could be easily carried out. 

After 1 had given up the magazine 
project Mr. Pattison called on me a num- 
ber of times, t^ach time he would give 
me some more of his ''tamanamus." I 
would frequently make fun of him for 
his skill in making up yarns. I would 
call his predictions lies and joking call 
him an old liai, etc. He took this all in 
good party but claimed he had some 
''prophecies" at his hom.e noted down 
which he wished me to write out for him 
so he could preserve them. Possibly 
some day he might wish to have them 
published. I agreed to write them out, 
the first time I should go up the river. 
He then was proprietor of the Park Place 



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ferty on the Skykomish river. In the 

summer of 1883 I had bnsiness up on the 
Snoqualimie. My son, Ed. C. Morse, and 
myself were living together ^'batching 
it" in Snohomish. The boy was then 11 
years old. Leaving home at 4 p. m., I 
walked up to Pattison's and stayed there 
over night. I wrote out his prophecies. 
The paper has since been burned up. 
Among the predictions there written 
down was a full account of ''the burning 
of Seattle," which afterward took place 
as predicted. Another described terrible 
earthquake and volcanic convulsions. 
He afterw^ard claimed this was fulfilled 
in the eruptions of the islands of Java. 
Another prediction, as yet unfulfilled, 
was a great foreign war, wherein the en- 
emy would succeed in landing a very 
large armj^ in Pennsylvania. He also 
gave a full and accurate description of 
la grippe as an unknown disease that 
would prevail over Europe and America 
but be milder on Puget Sound than else- 
where, and fixed the time of its appear- 
ance by events which took place in my 
life at the time la grippe appeared here, 
which events he had verbally foretold 
to me. I then left him, went through 



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tlie Tualco settlement and up tlie Sno- 
qualiniie river. It took me two days to 
go and return. Among other exper- 
iences I met a school teacher in the 
woods, going with some children to 
bchool. After conversing with them I 
went on; but on my return stopped at the 
school and amused the children by tell- 
ing them an Indian legend. Mr. Pat- 
tison gave me a detailed description of 
all these things on my return to his 
house. then asked him to describe 
what had taken place in town during 
my absence. He said the boy had got- 
ten along all right; but that a man had 
called at the cabin, on my son, wishing 
to see me; that this man had conae in on 
the steamer just after I left town, and 
had called to see me every day since, 
and was at that moment talking to my 
son. He described his actions and ap- 
pearance, and repeated the conversation 
then taking place. He further said that 
if I went to town that day I would see 
this man, but if I put it off till to-morrow 
the man would grow tired and leave 
town. He also told me it would make 
no difference to me or the business, be- 
cause it would not be completed then. 



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but finally I would collect quite a sum of 
money from this man; but before I col- 
lected the money I would go to his house 
and have a long conversation with his 
wife and family. He told me many oth- 
er things. I did not go direct to Snoho- 
mish, but reached home the next day. 
I had not recognized his description of 
the man in town, but on reaching home, 
I found his story true even to the min- 
utest detail, nor do I suppose he had re- 
ceived any information about my visitor. 
Jasper Sill, of the Stillaguamish river 
valle}^, was his name, and as attorney 
for eastern people I afterwards collected 
from Mr, Sill a considerable sum of 
money as predicted. 

For a couple of years after this Mr. 
Pattison called frequently at my resi- 
dence. I used to invite him to stay over 
night, and would require him to pay for 
his lodging by telling ^^some of his lies." 
Independent of the truth or falsity of 
these predictions there was much to in- 
terest and entertain in the way he would 
present unlooked for and seemingly im- 
possible things as realities. It seemed 
marvelous that so ignorant a man could 
invent, out of the whole cloth, so many 



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strange stories. About this time I was 
writing down hundreds of Indian legends. 
His stories, while wonderful in their 
construction and very entertaining when 
completed, were oftimes, like an Indian 
legend — tiresome to listen to, because 
some times he had to hunt and search 
for some time before he could find all 
the points he was looking for. This un- 
pleasant wa}' of reaching conclusions 
caused many who first witnessed his in- 
vestigations to be disgusted and to call 
him an '^old fraud.'' Time and again I 
have had him tell things that those who 
overheard him declared were sill}^ lies, 
made out of the whole cloth, too transpa- 
rent to impose on anyone, and too im- 
probable to ever come true. Yet, most 
always it was these improbable, unlikely 
yarns that afterward fitted into the pro- 
gress of events, and naturall3% carefully 
and completely to be realized. Had he 
better understood the customs and us- 
ages of polite societ}^, and had been 
prepared to tell his stories offhand, in 
choice language, so as to impress and 
amuse his hearers at the time, he could 
have speedily acquired fame and fortune 
1... i-"*. .-. o^'r-vr>iQp of his Deculiar talents. 



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As it is his influence commences as men 

find his predictions beginning to be real- 
ized. 

In 1883 and 1884 he told me enough 
to fill a very large book, had it been 
written down then. Since then he has 
had fewer stories. I used to tell him 
that he had told me so many lies that he 
was afraid to invent and tell any more 
because he had forgotten many old ones 
which I still remembered, and he was 
afraid to tell me new ones for fear that 
they would contradict or disprove 
the old ones. Still the old ones kept 
coming true, and the new ones that seem- 
ed to be in conflict came true also, but 
the conflict was, in their being realized, 
removed in an unexpected manner. 

To some people he could describe their 
past life, or tell occurrences then taking 
place among their friends or re- 
lations at a distance. In my case his 
visions rarely referred to the past, but 
his predictions w^ere almost wholly con- 
fined to the future. He has told much 
in figurative language, what for years 
seems to be coming true in a figurative 
manner also, yet none the less a real ful- 
fillment of his stories. An immense 



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amount of matter remains as yet unful- 
filled. Much about my work and busi- 
ness that he told me some five or six 
3^ears ago would be coming true in one 
or two years is just coming to be real- 
ized. Thus he wrongly estimated time 
and crowded into one or two years a 
mass of events which now promise to 
take fifteeu or twenty years for their 
realizatiou. Despite these discrepan- 
cies, and also the fact that seldom will 
any personal eflfort to bring about these 
events succeed^ these predictions seem 
to come true in regular order, one after 
another in their turn ; the unreasonable 
and improbable in the course of events 
becoming reasonable and probable, and 
finally an accomplished fact. 

In 1883 ^^^- Pattison was tr3dng to 
procure himself a wife by correspond- 
ence. Some of his friends would pre- 
pare his letters. These he would bring 
to me and ask me to revise and improve. 
Then he would in numberless ways re- 
quest my advice in his courtship. Fin- 
ally I told him that if he expected me 
to help get him a wife, turm about was 
fair play, and he must use his ''taniana- 
nrio'' to help me find a wife also. He 



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agreed to this, and described a person 

''with 1-ght blue eyes and golden hair'' 
coming with a broom in her hand to as- 
sist me, as my destined companion. Suf- 
fice it to say he fully and completely 
described my present wife, her age, ap- 
pearance, methods of work, education, 
religious opinions, her idescs and views 
which she would have when we should 
marry, with subsequent changes in her 
opinions on a great variety of subjects. 
At that time Mrs. Morse was living in 
California, the wife of another man; a 
stranger to both of us. Afterward they 
came to Snohomish, her husband died 
of appoplexy, and our marriage took 
place exactly as Mr. Pattison predicted. 
Among other things he described accu- 
rately a church that would be building 
when should marry her. The side 
nearest to where my home would be was 
to be painted half way up from the 
ground to the eaves the day of the wed- 
ding. The men who built the church 
were not in this country, nor were any 
plans made for its building when he told 
me this. I was to have nothing to do 
with it, further than that I would pass 
and repass it daily, and this half painted 



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side should fix the date of wedding. 
Some months after Mr. Pattison's first 
description of Mrs. Morse I was employ- 
ed to write up the tide marsh lands of 
Washington. I traveled over the Sound 
countrj^ extensively. Returning from 
each trip I would name and describe to 
Pattison some lady I had met on 
the trip, as my destined bride. I would 
tell him wherein his fortune telling had 
proven true and , wherein he had failed. 
A half dozen times over I repeated this 
joke at his expenses, he admitting that 
one could not alwaj^s be certain about 
all the small particulars; then each time 
he would fall into a half dreaming state 
and begin his description of the one des- 
tined to be Mrs. Morse. ^'Yes. now I 
can see hei coming, with light blue eyes, 
and golden hair,bare-headed and holding 
a brooom in her hand,.'' Still, while I 
became acquainted with her while her 
former husband was alive, yet I never 
thoug^ht of Pattison's prophecy as ap- 
plied to her until after I had proposed 
to her and we were about to marry, then 
the truht of the whole description came 
suddenly to my mind, and the ''joke" I 
had enjoyed at Pattison's expense about 



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these other ladies and the partial failure 
of his predictions was on me not on him. 
In 1885 I married the present Mrs. 
Morse. The presence of Mr. Pattison 
seemed repulsive to her and he could 
rarely tell her any valuable things about 
the future. On the other hand he could 
tell me all about her ideas and opinions, 
in her absence what she was doing and 
what she was thinking about, and tell 
these things all correctly. In the fall of 
1885 I was up to Park Place ferry and 
stopped overnight at Pattison's. Asa 
test I asked him to tell all Mrs. Morse 
had been doing that evening, who, if 
anybody, had called during the evening, 
and what she at that moment, about 10 
p.m., was doing, and what she was then 
thinking about. On returning home 
next morning Itold her Pattison^s whole 
story. She admitted it all to be true 
but claimed that '4t was an unfair ad- 
vantage to take of any woman." 

BUvSINESvS PROPHESIES. 

From 1883 ^^i^til 1886 Pattison made 
hundreds of predictions regarding the 
nature and extent of my fortune and 
busines. Like most fortune tellers he 
represented that ni}^ worst troubles were 



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in tlie past ; that after a long strnggle 
and some effort,! was to achieve wealth, 
fame and fortnne; that before I should 
die, my name and influence would be 
known and felt everywhere, and after my 
death my reputation would be greater 
than when living: all of which was, of 
course very comforting to me. While 
ready to admit that he could tell some 
things — that some of his '^guesses" had 
come true; and perhaps others, also, 
might hereafter prove true — I was in- 
clined to look upon the matter as afford- 
ing temporary amusement only, that 
Mr. Pattison had told me a good story 
because he expected me to aid him in 
busi-ness, to counsel him in his troubles 
and also because he found it cheaper to 
stop with me when he came to town on 
business than go to a hotel. Before he 
began his prophecies he used to act as 
if he thought me a **good book-man," 
but one unfitted to make money or suc- 
ceed in business; but after he began to 
study my case by his visions, etc., his 
manner toward me changed entirely and 
ever since he has acted as if, despite all 
trials, troubles and discourage- 
ments, my ultimate success in ever}' 



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field of effort, was, by liim at least, to be 
regarded as certain. At that time bis 
neighbors considered him to be grasp- 
ing and exacting in small matters, and 
frequent were the complaints and 
troubles about the collection of ferryage. 
The first evidence I had of his change 
of feeling toward me was his request to 
me to consider his ferry, his house and 
his home free for me to use at my con- 
venience, without money and without 
price. Since then, no matter hov/ 
roughly I may have treated him at 
times, he has seemed to be determined 
not to take offence; but no matter what 
the sacrifice, to secure and preserve my 
friendship at all hazards. 

From 1879 onward, for over a half- 
dozen years, my means were not only 
extremely limited but despite the most 
strenrous exertion on my part, all aven- 
ues of success seemed closed to me. 
Without sacrificing all independence 
and manhood, it seemed w^ell nigh im- 
possible to make even a good living, at 
anything which presented itselr here. 
Many different things were tried, yet 
no matter how good the prospect the 
result was in every instance far from 



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successful. It seemed wholly out of the 
question to try to do an}' of the things 
I most desired to do. It was at this 
time Mr. Pattison came to me with his 
^'big stories.'' It is needless to say they 
seemed to be absurd in the extreme. 
They consisted of a series of vivid pict- 
ures, each giviug the expected state of 
affairs as the}/^ would appear to an e^^e- 
witness, with a blank as to all between. 
Mr. Pattison inferred that the intervals 
v/ould be short between each of these 
visions when they came to be realized, 
or in other words, that such visions rep- 
resented a wxll nigh continuous picture 
of what my life and fortune might be ex- 
pected to be, when, in fact, if they all 
came true, manj^ things he has grouped 
closel}^ together in real life, will be sep- 
erated by months or even years of strug- 
gle and hard w^ork. These visions give 
results oftentimes without setting forth 
hovv^ such results are to be achieved. 
Again they present conversations, opin- 
ions and states of mind about things, 
the doing of which, if it is ever to be ac- 
complished, is still years in advance. 

Therefore it is useless to give more 
than an outline of a few things that have 



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thus far become materialized, that ceased 
to be prophetic visions, but are now real 
facts. Finally after trying manj^ things 
I was induced to lease some wild land, 
clear it up and fence a tract in the forest 
and away from roads, without team or 
other convenience, to make a living by 
running a vegetable market garden. 
After being established there in 1886, I 
found myself stoppings while at work 
there, in a very rude cabin, with a dirt 
floor, which Pattison had fully described 
in 1883, but in his description of the 
the cabin, he had neither seen or des- 
cribed the garden. The interior of the 
cabin had been minutely and accurately 
described, how I lived there, and man}^ 
things which took place there foretold. 
I raised vegetables there in 1886, '87, 88 
and '89. After establishing mj^self thus 
I rallied Pattison about his '/big stories" 
of extensive operations, etc., he was to 
have me do; and in the spring and sum- 
mer of 1887 wished him to describe my 
crops and what I should do that season. 
None of his stories fitted the place or 
the work I was then doing. Toward 
the end of the season Pattison came to 
town to see me, not finding me there he 



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came out to the garden. When lie had 
reached the place and had called him 
'^an old liar,'' and said to him that he 
had told me nothing but lies about the 
place, he admitted it, btit claimed he had 
never seen the place at all in his visions. 
He asserted that it must be a different 
place I was to live on he had been describ- 
ing ; that, if true at all, '^"^s stories were 
of an entirel}^ different locality, I was af- 
terwards to find elsewhere. He recog- 
nized the inside of the cabin, and that 
was all. Of course I would make fun of 
him and his prophecies by wholesale; 
which he stood as best he could. After 
working there several years, there still 
seemed small show of my owning or con- 
troling much real estate. Suddenh', in 
1889, a man who felt he must sell and 
came and begged that I should buy an 
unimproved farm of 150 acres. There 
was a rough but substantial faim house. 
The Snohomish river ran in front, the 
railroad crossed the rear of the place. 
There was but little clear land. Neither 
Pattison nor myself were familiar with 
the place. When offered to me at a 
price far below its real value, 1 told my 
fried it was impossible to buy, as I had 



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no read}^ money and no means of bor- 
rowing any. Still lie kept after me, and 
finally I told him if lie would take a 
third mortgage I might assume the first 
mortgage then on the place, I then might 
raise him some money bj^ borrowing of 
one of my creditors a small snni on con- 
dition of giving this creditor a second 
mortgage that wonld include a prior in- 
debtedness as well as the total sum ad- 
vanced, and the owner of the place would 
content himself with a third mortgage. 
After maii}^ negotiation title w^as secured 
but on receiving a deed, mortgages ex- 
ceeding by $400 the consideration of the 
deed, resting on the place. Under such 
peculiar circumstances I w^as able to 
overcome obstacles and take a first step 
toward ''fame und fortune," as prophe- 
cied by Pattison. I moved on the new^ 
place in '89, in April. I soon found that 
the house inside and out had, years be- 
fore, been described by Phttison, and all 
my w^ork since done there; in clearing 
improving and cultivating the place, my 
successes and failures there, and I am 
likely to do there for years to come. 
When I laughed at him about his failure 
to describe the garden on rented land,he 



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really was describing iiiy future home, 

on a place I vSliould own and cultivate. 

In SnoliG)inisli I have rented many dif- 
ferent places in the past ten years. Pat- 
tison's descriptions have preven very 
peculiar. Where he thought he w^as de- 
scribing different parts of one building 
his descriptions have proven true in this 
vv^ay: he has described the inside of only 
the rooms occupied in another,- or only 
the outside of a third. Still so far as 
realized at all, each has proven a true 
description. He has had much to say 
about an extensive business I am sup- 
posedly some da}^ to start near the bank 
of the river, but this now seems more 
probable than formerly, but that is all. 

RAILROADS, ETC. 

As a means of fixing the time when I 
should commence doing a considerable 
business — and Pattison assumed to de- 
scribe many kinds of business I was to 
become interested in — in 1883 he began 
to describe the railroad developments of 
Snohomish county and vicinity. At that 
date there were no railroads from Seattle 
down the Sound; none were even pro- 
posed to be built from Seattle around 
the north end of Lake Washington. Ap- 



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parent!}^ no one had thought of Snoho- 
mish as a possible railroad center. Had 
any one at that time described the pres- 
ent route of the vSeattle, Lake Shore & 
Eastern from ^'Snohomish junction'' 
northward to Fiddler's bluff, and thence 
down river to Snohomish city, he would 
have been called a crazy prophet b}^ all. 
This is vvliat i\Ir. Pattison actually did 
at that time ! In 1883 ^^ described the 
rivalry between as to right of wa}', the 
opposition over bridging the Snohomish 
river, the breaking of the bridge, the 
stopping of construction and Snohomish 
remaining for some time practically the 
end of the railroad. He also described 
the location of the railway station, and 
the rapid growth of the town particlarly 
near the station; the filling up of the 
Front street gulch and the new build- 
ings there, and also the grading o f the 
street. Then he told how the Northern 
Pacific railroad company, despite the ef- 
forts of Seattle, would fi^nally secure con- 
trol of this new railroad, and how in ef- 
fect in w^ould practically become abranch 
of the Northern Pacific system of rail- 
roads. In 1883 there was none of these 
things in existence, yet he described 



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tliem as fnlly^ as complete^ and as 
truly as they could now be set forth and 
described. Seemingly^ at that time^tliis 
was all given incidentally, as it were, to 
illustrate how all these things must now 
take place before I should be able to se- 
cure any considerable degree of prosper- 
ity or business success. 

Then he claimed that finally I was to 
secure afoot hold in Snohomish on Front 
street and also near the railroad bridge, 
and not only carry on an extensive bus- 
iness myself, but incidentally be the 
cause of a great many kinds of business 
being concentrated at Snohomish. Of 
course all these things remain, to yet be 
realized. Possibly he may be mistaken 
and none of them come true. They are 
told here to simply illustrate how his 
prophecies were given. Mr. Pattison 
also described the growth of ''The Eye^' 
newspaper, its enlargment and increased 
business, and the various relations I was 
to hold towaid its publishers. 

Finally, in 1888 he described the pres- 
ent route of the ''Three S'^ railroad first 
from Snohomish to Port Gardner, going 
northwest from the present Seattle, 
Lake Shore & Eastern railway station; 



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and also its building eastward to the 
Skykomish river valley, and up that val- 
ley, the mines on Silver creek and their 
development, etc. He has many times 
described a big city away up in the 
mountains, supported by mines in its 



vicinity. 



Since 1883 he has had much to say 
about a big public building north of the 
western part of town, to which people 
would go from all over the country. 
Possibly this means the new county court 
house. He also told how, after the town 
was '^spread way out,'' and all these rail 
roads were here, strife w^ould spring up 
between this place and people near the 
mouth of the river; that finally the}^ 
would have the advantage, and that 
men from the mouth of the river were to 
come and get the ''records'' and bear 
them away down river. Still Snohomish 
was to continue to grow the same as be- 
fore. Can it be that some day Everett 
may become the county seat of Snoho- 
mish county? 

This is sufiicient to introduce Mr. Pat- 
tison's own story. 

ELDRIDGE MORSE. 
Snohomish, Wash., Sept. 14, 1891. 



Mr. Pattison's Story. 



I was born and raised in Erie county, 
Pennsylvania. My father's ancestry was 
Scotch, my mother's English. M}^ father 
died at 54; my mother, still alive, is 85 years 
old. When about ten years of age my peo- 
ple began noticing my visions. My mother 
called me her vision-boy. When about fif- 
teen years of age I began to tell things about 
to happen among the neighbors. I told 
many about their past life, as well as fore- 
told things yet to come. Many of the peo- 
ple there were greatly astonished at these 
things. 

When about seventeen years of age I left 
home and lived for several months in Ohio. 
My home there was near the lake shore, 
about fortv miles from Cleveland. Then I 
stayed awhile in the oil regions of Pennsyl- 
vania, among the mountains. This was be- 
fore the regions were fully developed. I 
there prophecied the success of the oil busi- 
ness. I told it then to only a few, but it was 
all afterAvards fully realized. 

I was in Pennsylvania and New York for 
several years, working for wages. At the 
age of twenty-five I was married in Penn- 
sylvania. Two years afterAvard T moved to 
Ktni'ias, lived there fourteen months, then 



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went back to Chicago, Illinois, by wagon 

team. After a few months in Chicago and 
Michigan, I lived two years in Wisconsin. 
Thereafter, for a number of years, I was on 
the frontier, in the mountains, and through 
most of the territories. About 1870 I re- 
turned to Chicago. For several years I was 
in Illinois, Minnesota and in or near Chic- 
ago. In Ottowa, Illinois, I joined the Odd 
Fellows, and I did many things there that 
seemed mysterious and astonished the peo- 
ple. I was in request among Spiritulist cir- 
cles throughout that whole region. At Peo- 
ria, Illinois, I stopped for some time, and 
did nothing there but tell fortunes. Those 
who visited me were astonished at the full- 
ness and accuracy of my predictions and 
other statements. 

I there told men about their farms; places 
they would own and cultivate; how they 
would manage their crops; buildings they 
would put up, etc. Years afterward many of 
these things came true exactly as I predicted 
them. This was true where I had no per- 
sonal knowledge of these places, buildings 
and surroundings when I told these things. 
One evening I told a strange lady when first 
meeting her, about her moving on that day, 
the things moved, and that among them was 
a cabinet organ, and that, at that instant, 
her daughter was at the place moved to, and 
playing on this organ — which was all true. 



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About that time I was travelling over that 
region with a team, selling goods. One 
night I stopped at a farm house. During 
the evening I told the head of the family 
that he had been a soldier and described to 
him how he had broken his leg just above 
the ankle in crossing a small stream while 
on the march— all of which was true. 

Then I described to him how he got out, 
trimmed and shaved a large pole near his 
barn, two years before, Avhen -his vrife said: 
''That was the 'liberty pole' he got out at 
that time.'' 

Then I turned and remarked that I would 
like to tell her some things. She was frigh- 
tened and objected. Before leaving I told 
her husband that in a short time she would 
be taken down vrith consumption; that she 
did not then know the disease had begun its 
work, but before many months he would 
send her to a hospital for treatment, and 
that inside of three years he would be a 
widower. This all came true.' 

Another time I was hearing a man lecture 
on psycliology, mesmerism, and other sim- 
iliar subjects. I had never seen or heard of 
him before. While he was lecturing a Avom- 
an dressed in black seemed to come and 
stand beside him for a time, then to dissa- 
pear. The thought came to me that the 
lecturer Wcis a widower from the East whose 
wife had been dead for tliree years, and that 



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this apparition was his wife. After the lect- 
ure 1 introduced myself to the lecturer, and 
requested an inter vie^v for the following day 
at his rooms, which request was granted. 
On the following day, as I drove to the house 
where he was stopping,! saw the same wom- 
an's form floating in the air in front, and 
around to one side of the house. I followed 
it to the door, knocked and entered. There 
I stated the object of my visit and told him 
he was from the East, and that he was a 
widower whose wife had been dead three 
years. I described my visions and selected 
by their aid his wife's picture from about 
one hundred photographs. 

This lecturer told me I should follow this 
business exclusively, because if I did other 
things I would not see so clearly; and that 
he had never met one whose powers were 
equal to mine—all of which I found to be 
true: That is, whenever I did other things 
my visions Vv^^^e not so clear— I could not 
see things so perfectly. 

About that time I gave much of my time 
to these things. Often these visions would 
come to me and it seemed as if I must leave 
my work and go and hunt up and tell people 
what I saw of them. 

When a young man at home I would sel- 
dom refer to these things in my mother's 
presence. She was very religious and held 

m11 snob nowprc: to bp of tbp rjpvil Fin^illv 



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after one of my western trips I was at the 
home of a married sister. The family per- 
suaded my mother to listen to me. On 'book- 
ing'' I was surprised to ^^see'' my mother's 
sister, Aunt Cloe, whose home was fifty miles 
away, at Aunt Catherine's, whose house was 
only twenty miles distant. Aunt Cloe was 
tossing on a bed in sickness and pain. 1 
told my mother she would never see he sis- 
ter Cloe alive again, bvit that she might see 
her corpse. 

I then described her disease, sickness and 
death, the room in which she would find her 
dead body. This worried my mother so that 
I went to the postotfice and found a letter 
for mother from Aunt Catherine telling 
about Aunt Cloe being taken sick while 
coming to visit her sisters, and requesting 
mother to come immediately. Next morn- 
ing at day-break mother and I started in a 
wagon for a Au.nt Catherine's. 

When within some three miles of there 1 
told mother Aunt Cloe had just died. Be- 
fore reaching the house we met a cousin who 
told us Aunt Cloe was dead. We found her 
body in a room exactly as described the 
night before. 

After this my mother fully trusted me, 
and frequently inquired about things. Since 
my coming to Puget Sound she has had 
some money stolen. She wrote to me about 
it. I told her when, where and how it had 



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been taken; described the parties; told her 
where the money was then hidden, and how 
she might recover it. 

AN INCIDENT. 

Ebenezer Hubbell was a childhood ac- 
quaintance of mine. We grew up together. 
Both had been West, had had many exper- 
iences, and had each came back to Pennsyl- 
vania. I was at the home of his wife's par- 
ents. His mother-in-law wished me to tell 
some things. Hubbell swore that no man 
could tell any thing about him. He called 
it all a humbug and before all the people at 
*'the party'' ridiculed his mother-in-laAV for 
listening to such stories. His boisterous 
conduct caused much surprise at the party. 
At his mother-in-law's request I secured his 
attention and promised to tell him a few 
things that would convince him that such 
things could be told. They all listened. He 
had been married only a short time and his 
young wife was present. To annoy him I 
began by telling about his experiences out 
West, ^^sparking a girl in Missouri." I de- 
scribed her actions, appearance, color of 
eyes and hair and how he had got ''the mit- 
ten." 

''It is a d d lie," he said with an oath. 

''It is true all the same," I answered. 

Then they all laughed at him. 

"Afterwards," I said to further convince 
him, " you were travelling through a corn^ 



Si 

field in Wisconsin; the corn stood in its 
bloom; the ears were nearly full size, and 
there were pumpkins among the corn, both 
ripe and green. You picked up a rusty 
sword with its point broken off. With an 
independent mind you walked along for a 
few rods, swinging this sword in your hand 
and wondering how it had ever came to bo 
in the corn-field. Then you threw it and it 
stuck in a ripe pumpkin and went on.^' 

Hubbell Jumped up in astonishment and 
exclaimed : 

^'My God, ! that is so ! and the girl story is 
true. I thought someone might have told 
you about the girl, but no one could about 
the sword because no one knew it but me.^^ 

PUGET SOUND EXPERIENCF:S. 

In 1880 I came from St. Paul, Mhm., to 
Puget Sound by way of Sad Francisco. 
Soon after my arrival I settled at Park Place 
on the Skykomish River, in Snohomish 
county. Ever since then I have lived in 
Snohomish county. I married again since 
coming to Park Place, ¥/ash. 

When I first came to Snohomish City 
there was no wagon road eastward from 
there to the Skykomish River. Most of what 
is now the wagon road to Park Place was 
then only a trail. With a companion who 
came with me from tlie Eastern States, we 
walked over this route. We came to the 
bank of the Skykomish River, and there 



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in a vision as it were, I clearly saw a small 
town near where I afterward built my ferry. 
I told my comrade my vision and said: 

'^I w^ill locate here if I can obtain that land 
across the river.'' 

Looking still farther eastvN^ard,away up the 
Skykomish River, just under the mountains, 
I saw Vv^here a good sized city w^as to be built. 
On subsequently going up the Skykomish 
River, years afterward, I saw on Wallace 
River, near the Skykomish, a tract of land 
that seemed to be the place where my visions 
had located this city. No town is yet start- 
ed, but mining developments indicate that 
such a town vv^ill be located there at no dis- 
tant day, not far from where timber and 
farming land and mining meet each other. 
For ten years past I have frequently describ- 
ed this town to my friends and neighbors. 

I secured this tract of wild land across the 
Skykomish and began to talk roads and fer- 
ry to my neighbors. There were no roads 
on my side of the river, near my home. The 
settlers were not interested in roads; they 
said the river gave all the outlet they desir- 
ed. I opened up trails, started up the ferry, 
and interested the whole region in roads, so 
that good roads soon existed all over the Park 
Place and Tualco settlements. What was 
then called Park Place is now the town of 
Monroe. 

My prophecies and visions and original 



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ways caused me to be great! }' ridiculed. In 
derision I received the nick-name of '^Blue- 
fay'' Pattison. Others, when they saw the 
bu.siness around the ferry, the progress and 
advancement in that neighboorhood, became 
very jealous and envious of me. So I had a 
great many rivalries, and mo0B than the us- 
ual amount of opposition to contend with. 

Finally I came to Saohomish, ran a ferry 
across the Snohomish river, engaged in the 
bakery and other business and for several 
years past my chief interests were, and mosc 
of mv time has been spent in Snohomish 
City^ 

SOME OTHER EXPERIENCES. 

Since coming to Washington I have never 
made fortune telling, or my ^^faculty of see- 
ing things^', describing the past, present or 
future of individuals, a business. 

My business and other troubles and my 
losses and anxieties have seriously interfered 
with my ability to do good work in this line. 

It is only by putting to one side all troub- 
les or perplexities. that I can sufficiently con- 
centrate my mind so as to ''see'' fully what 
pertains to the affairs of myself or others. 

It is seldom that during twenty years past 
that I could banish all other matters and 
think only of one the thing I wished to look 
into. When worried over my own personal 
affairs I would have many fore warnings of 
ii.j, ii;in[; trouble or danger; but most of 



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these things would present themselves fn 
such a way that I could not fully understand 
or apply the warning until after the danger 
or trouble had taken place, when, in many 
cases there would have been a literal fulfill- 
mont of the thing forewarned. 

Yet, besides the many things told Mr. 
Morse as related bv him, I have told hun- 
dreds of yeople in this county as well as at 
Seattle, many things about their past, pres- 
ent or future, that have been strictly true 
and have greatly astonished my friends. 

Again, many have advised me to take my 
time and go to much trouble to hunt up 
things for them without paying me anything 
or else simply treating me to a cigar or some 
other similiar slight courtesy. It is very 
wearisome hard work to sit down and con- 
centrate my mind on other people's affairs, 
^^Just to amuse them,'' when it neither inter- 
ests nor profits me. So, Avithsuch people, I 
sometimes told them* a few things to get rid 
of them, or else flatly decline to act for them. 
Some of the things told this way have been 
so true that they have surprised and startled 
my hearers: others have denied my powers 
to ^^see things" because I declined to waste 
my time simply to gratify their idle curiosity. 

As an illustration of such idle, off-hand 
remarks, one time I was down town when a 
book-keeper in a store called me in and 
earnestly requested me to tell him some 



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things. I began by telling him that 'S^ou 
will see a couple of young ladies coming 
down the street this afternoon. They will 
be coming down to see you and will do so. 
Thev will banter and loke you aud vou will 
know the object of their visit and will rec- 
ognize by their talk that they are the per- 
sons I am now describing.'' 

In an half -hour this all came true as he 
told me later in the day. 

Pattison's Prediction s 



Under this heading it is proposed to set 
forth some of my visions and prophicies, 
which are to be chiefly realized in the future. 

A VISION. 

In 1877, while in the forest in the moun- 
tains of Pennsylvania, I saw a vision which 
I wrote down soon after. It impressed me 
so strongly that on losing my writing after- 
ward, I re-wrote it three times. The follow- 
ing is almost a literal copy of this vision as 
first written by me in 1877. 

^^This which I write is to come. From 
this date all in the future. Hark! and hear 
the awful doom to come\ He that hath an 
ear, let him hear! He that hath a tongue, 
let him speak! Vision of the world in view, 
that makes the blood run cold. A great cal- 
amity, floods and storms, sickness and erup- 
tions. A great war shall come such as his- 



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tory has never penned before like unto it. 
One army shall be dressed in blue and the 
other in drab and manv colors. Fathers 
shall sigh, mothers shall weep and children 
cry. It will make the people think of Sodom 
and Gomorrah. It will make them think of 
ancient times; of the temple of Babel; its 
downfall — and great was the fall; and so it 
shall be. Oh! the great corruption in this 
land, Our office men. From tho lowest to 
the highest shall scheme and fill their own 
pockets. While that is the case what are we 
going to do, when honor is no more; while 
the largest streams are dammed up with 
flood-wood? What are the little ones going 
to do? Woe, woe! unto the nations! The 
great downfall such as the world never knew 
before. The blind have led the blind and 
where shall they fall? The earth shall 
quake, the rocks shall be rent, and the earth 
shall shake. Balls of fire shall fly in the air 
which shall cause the heavens to look red, 
instead of blue. Light in the heavens will 
be seen, which shall cause the minds of men 
to ache, and the w^hole heavens shall shake. 
After this war and these convulsions of 
earth and the heavens, there shall be one 
king, then two, a space, then three, a space, 
then four, a. space, then five, a space, then 
ten kings in this free country, as it is -called. 
Oh! the rolling of thunders shall be heard, 
which shall awake the slumbering echoes, 



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and then the very forest shall bow its head 
to mother earth and to its natures God. Cold 
chills shall be felt through the nations, like 
unto the shock of a thunderbolt. You fool- 
ish minds may laugh and scorn this hand 
and pen, but, lo! it's all the same, it will 
come. These many things shall come by 
degrees. Let the world read this and think 
of the day I was born. Let this be kept and 
preserved, when these active limbs are pow- 
erless and this brain refuses to act. Let 
them be preserved for the nations,'' 

In plain language the above sets forth 
great social troubles and war, yet to come 
to this nation at a time when there 
will also be earthquakes and other convul- 
sions, diseases and trouble coupled with lack 
of honor or purity among the official class, 
from the highest to the lowest. All this 
may be many years in the future. After 
this there will be many changes and altera- 
tions and divisions in government, possibly 
not kingly rule, but many changes from any 
thing now existing, most of them for the 
worst. Perhaps our present form of govern- 
ment will be wholly destroyed. If it comes, 
it will be mainly through corruption of pub- 
lic men. The great war — the beginning of 
these troubles — -if not a foreign foe will be 
rebellion against the official class. The blue 
will be government troops, and those in drab 
and many colors will be typical of a rebel- 



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lion against the government, springing up 
everywhere, five or more to one against the 
government. AVith foreign wars and tu- 
mults to add to the confusion. 

CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENT. 

For j^ears I have had visions of society, 
the progress made by science and improve- 
ments in the arts of life. The following are 
some things ^^seen:'' 

Inside of fifty years the telegraph will be 
done away with; the telephone w^ill be im- 
proved and take its place' and wires will be 
run to nearly every dwelling. Speeches in 
distant cities will be repeated in homes in 
the country generally and in all cities and 
even in foreign nations by phonographs and 
telephones. Something like a hundred 
years from now improvements will take 
place bj^ which without wires telephones or 
telegraphs, people thousands of miles apart 
will be able to secure the attention of others 
and converse with them as readily as if they 
were close together in a room. 

All steam engines and steam power will be 
done away with. Electric power or some- 
thing similiar will take its place. I can fix 
no date for this. 

Ocean navigation will be changed alto- 
gether. Ships as now constructed will be 
done awav with. Men will cross the ocean 
in a new kind of vessel as speedily as now, 
on land bv railroad. The new vessels will 



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dart swiftly over the surface, without sink- 
ing much in the water. I see nothing to 
support them from sinking, but this new 
conveyance, bj^ some unseen powder, scales 
swdftly along the surface, only just touching 
the surface, without sinking in the water, 
like our present ships. In a vision, while 
this is being wTitten, I see the w^hole arrang- 
ment. The vessel;, moving swiftly over the. 
water have on either side wings that rest in 
the air, above the water. Some do not turn 
some are made to act like wind mills to help 
the motion of the vessel. Above the vessel 
are cables and wares, crossing the ocean in 
many directions. These wires are held above 
the water by huge baloons stationed in the 
air, above the wires and anchored to them, 
which hold the wires high up and keep them 
taut by their boviyancy. The faster the ves- 
sel moves along the water, the wings on each 
side by the resistance of the air lift up the 
vessel so that it skims more lightly on the 
water. It will be some time before this 
takes place. Cables held by rings hang 
from the wires over head down to vessels 
and seem to draw the vessel along with great 
speed. These new vessels are very large 
and formed on the bottom something like 
existing ships so that if anything should 
give way they would still be safe. Above 
ibe water they have cabins and long seats 
like railroads and every convenience for 



4P 



freight and passengers. They have tubes 
and valves arranged with air organs in these 
tubes within these vessels so that if the sup- 
ports should give av\^ay, even in mid-ocean, 
it vrould be impossible for them to sink any 
deeper in the water. Nothing short of a 
great hurricane could affect the safety of 
these boats or the passengers on them. The 
baloons seem to be made of metal painted in 
various colors, stripes running clear around 
them. They are four-sided pyramids, wide 
at the bottom, very smooth, bright and 
shiny, with different colored stripes running 
clear around them. These balls — for each 
baloon serves a purpose like a ^^governor'^on 
a steam engine (two smaller balls below and 
on eithes side, held by short arms)- — seem to 
be moving around the sttaionery top nost 
ball. Underneath each ball is machinery 
that creates power within the baloons to keep 
them in place and run the vessels. 

One hundred years from now most all 
modern inventions— tools, machinerv and 
mode of travel — now in use, will seem as an- 
cient and old-fashioned as now things seein 
to people that were in use two hundred or 
more years ago. 

My present impressions are that after the 
wars, convulsions and troubles given i.i ihj 
vision at the head of this section,are through 
with, and everything will be finally settled, 
and there will be less corruption and op- 



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pression than ever before — men will not 
struggle for wealth and power — the rights of 
the masses will be better protected. Every- 
one by a study of science will be able to 
help along the progress of all and most of 
these great improvements will be made that 
are above outlined and generally referred to. 
This only gives a few things that have very 
strongly impressed me. The class of men 
who heretofore, by their creeds, number and 
and opinions, have retarded arid held back 
the progress of science, will soon grow so 
few in numbers and influence that the 
progress of science in the future will be much 
greater than ever before, 

SOME LOCAL PREDICTIONS. 

My visions since coming to Puget Sound 
have always been of the most flattering 
character, about the progress and growth of 
Puget Sound. Not to give details, in effect 
I may saj^ that in size of all cities, density of 
population, wealth, trade, commerce and 
manufactures, the Sound country will ex- 
ceed any of the Eastern states. In influ- 
ence and education it will be ahead of any 
other region. Its mines will be more valu- 
able than those of Pennsylvania or Califor- 
nia. In this country gold, silver, copper,ti]i. 
lead, coal and iron as well as many other 
metals will be mined before many years in 
immense and as yet undreamed of quanti- 
ties. Within fiitv vears there will be a citv 



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on Puget Sound with nearly 2,5000,000 peo- 
ple. On Snohomish River will be places of 
from 50,000 to 100,000 inhabitants. My 
whole visions would be too numerous to 
mention or describe. These few outlines 
are given to show the character only and en- 
able the public to judge for themselves of 
their truth and value. I do not wish the 
public to look upon me as other than a plain 
common man, who for years has held back 
from telling his story, but now simply and 
plainly tells it to all, not to praise himself 
nor pose as a hero, but simply that each can 
select what seems of interest or value and 
leave the rest. 

SOME IDEAS AND OPINIONS. 

Too much nonsense is taught by our 
schools today. Haughty pride will never 
acquire an education in science or good 
sense. The fathers and mothers should 
teach their sons and daughters the system of 
laws that govern their bodies. If they would 
it would prolong life and make freqent the 
cases of persons living to those ripe old 
ages of health happiness and vigor. It would 
deprive the doctors of the opportunities to 
rob people of their money, health, beauty 
and happiness. It is one of the grandest 
truth to teach to the children. It would 
prolong the lives of the rising generation 
and put an end to the deception of doctors. 

The laws of Nature are all right; they 



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shine resplendent everywhere with goodness 
beauty and truth. The great christian 
churches say the}' love and worship a per- 
sonal God. They say he made all things 
good and right. And then they proceed 
vvith an attempt to fix nature better than 
God did. Although they have said God is 
perfect, yet they deny it by their acts. Hov/ 
can so many Christains break Nature's law^s 
which govern the human system, seven days 
in the week, and yet conscientiously declare 
tha.t they are obiedient to His will, the most 
mighty and omnipotent creator, whom they 
acknowledge to be the author and furnisher 
of all thhigs. 

Do thev consider the laws of Nature to be 
the laws of God? And under the impression 
that Nature did not make them good enough 
they proceed to paint, primp and deform. | 
themselves, pinching one portion of their J 

body so that one rib slides over another and ' 

enlarging other portions wath pads, bustles, 
etc, On the other hand men shave off the 
corners of their beards, clip their hair,pincli 
their feet, wear stiff hats, etc., all of which 
is injurious to health. 

Men, women and children seek to im- 
prove on their complexions by the use of 
])oisonous paints, powder, arsenic, cosmetics 
nnd the like. 

The duty of women to bear children has 
b^en evaded. Miniv doctors are constantly 



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eniploved to prevent nature taking her course 
They seek to avoid the natural consequences 
of corruption among females, thus saving 
women from the results of their own acts, to 
the injury of the race. The children born 
have short lives and weak constitutions from 
the treatment of their mothers, and medi- 
cines given before their birth. Artilicial 
80c"al barriers have also been formed, which 
do not in the least conduce to the happiness 
of society. We are destroying the laws of 
Nature, (which are God's laws) every day. 

The State of Washington has the grandest 
climate and most fertile soil that the sun of 
heptven ever shone upon for the healthful 
development of the human race. 

ViaiONS OF THE PAST AND FUTURE. 

Oh! now I see human skulls lying deep 
beneath the soil of the earth, They died to 
satisfy the lusts of the priests of the Catholic 
church, who struck them down without shovv^- 
ing them any mere;/; but hundreds of the 
votaries of that church do not knov/ it. The 
crimes of these priests are beyond the lim- 
ited comprehension of the people of this 
world so far have they been hidden from 
our view. . If their's be a just God, in which 
they profess to believe, who keeps a heaven 
to reward the just and a hell to punish the 
wicked, I trust he will consign the afore- 
mentioned monsters to the hottest ])lace in 
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In July (year unknown) the mountains 
will be blown up. The hot lava will run 
down. 

A great war will come. England will be 
in it. Capital and Labor will fight, Cal- 
ifornia and Washington will roll in a fer- 
ment. Many islands will be visited bv areat 
disasters, The earth will quake furiously. 
History has never told us of crimes equal to 
those that will be committed, which Avill be 
sufficient to stop the pulsations of the human 
heart and make our blood run cold. One 
man shall eat ano!:her's flesh. A famine 
shall rage. See the bloody torrents floating 
toward the sea. I see human bodies torn in 
pieces and flung in the sea and knives and 
hatchets flung after the pieces. Then I see 
boats sinking, stained with blood, and scenes 
of rage and terror too horrible for human 
eyes to dwell upon. 

In another visions I see mighty inven- 
tions spring into existence. Lamps will 
make their own fuel, wagons will run with- 
out horses or steam; so will plows and 
other machinery and tools. Steam will then 
cease to be a motive power by which our en- 
gines will be operated. Silk and cotton will 
be on common level with each other before the 
rich and poor can shake hands together. 
Love can then meet Lovers hand and heart 
upon a common plane. This must be done 
before the lion and the lamb can lay down 



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together. 

But this will never be while the human 
heart and pulse beat. Gabriel's horn will 
never blow for you when you are dead and 
sleep beneath the soil. 

The thoughtful man seeking knowledge 
shall rise to the highest level, while he who 
only repeats what is taught in the schools 
shall fail. The free thinker shall find the 
truth and the slave to religion shall be no 
more. The present telegraph will dissapear 
and give place to a more useful telegraph of 
a new age. 

The universe shall crack and all Nature's 
laws shall come to a halt. Ever3^thing will 
change; old ideas will pass away and the 
truth of Darwin will be universally accepted. 
Evolution and a new reign of progress will 
commence again. 

Tubes will be constructed from cit}^ to city 
across the land, and under and across the 
ocean, to crttj the mail and small packa- 
ges. Electric carriers will carry parcels of 
freight throughout the cities and to farm 
houses in the country. 

Water s[)Outs will be a terror, rising from 
the water so frequently as to do great dam- 
age to cities and shipping and washing peo- 
ple from the land and destroying them in 
these convulsions. America must come 
under the power of arbitration, which must 
take the place of courts — the poor must have 



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their rights made as secure as the rich — and 
fewer lavrvershe in Congress or the legisla- 
tures, their places filled by .practical men 
before justice and prosperity can floiU oVi 
and fill the land. 

SNOHOMISH FIRE. 

Ill visions I have repeatedly seen nearly 
all of Front street in Snohomish in flames. 
The hottest place will be near Burn's brick 
block. Many fires will set in this town by 
bad men seeking their own advantage. 

AT WASHIXCiTON CITY. 

I see a tremendous fire in Washington 
city that Avill endanger the white house. 
This Avill also be started by unprincij)led 
men who Avill set the city on fire. 

I see great danger ahead for President 
Grover Cleveland. He is in danger from 
poison or other deceptive acts of pretenders 
who will try to secretly and fouly make away 
with him and take his life. 

Let paper be our government money ii 
you want this government to prosper. Let 
our country be the basis of our money; that 
gives equal rights between man and man, 
whether poor or rich. This must be done 
soon or blood will be shed. Equal rights 
must be^had. The people cry, Oh, ye office 
men. You must waste no time. Do not 
urito others Athat you would not have other.^ 
do unto you, or this country must fall. 



